takeout

or take-out

something made to be taken out, especially food prepared in a store or restaurant to be carried out for consumption elsewhere.

3.

Informal. a store, restaurant, or counter specializing in preparing food meant to be carried out for consumption elsewhere.

4.

a section, as of a magazine, that may be removed intact, usually consisting of a story, article, or set of illustrations.

5.

Also called takedown, takeout loan, takeout mortgage. Finance. a long-term real-estate mortgage arranged for a building the construction of which is financed by an interim short-term loan (construction loan)

6.

Cards.

Bridge. a bid in a suit or denomination different from the one bid by one's partner.

Poker. the minimum with which a player can begin.

adjective

7.

pertaining to or supplying food and drink to be taken out and consumed elsewhere:

Gradually replaced Middle English nimen as the verb for "to take," from Old English niman, from the usual West Germanic *nem- root (cf. German nehmen, Dutch nemen; see nimble). OED calls it "one of the elemental words of the language;" take up alone has 55 varieties of meaning in that dictionary's 2nd print edition. Basic sense is "to lay hold of," which evolved to "accept, receive" (as in take my advice) c.1200; "absorb" (she can take a punch) c.1200; "to choose, select" (take the long way home) late 13c.; "to make, obtain" (take a shower) late 14c.; "to become affected by" (take sick) c.1300.

Take five is 1929, from the approximate time it takes to smoke a cigarette. Take it easy first recorded 1880; take the plunge "act decisively" is from 1876; take the rap "accept (undeserved) punishment" is from 1930. Phrase take it or leave it is recorded from 1897.

n.

1650s, "that which is taken in payment," from take (v.). Sense of "money taken in" by a single performance, etc., is from 1931. Movie-making sense is recorded from 1927. Criminal sense of "money acquired by theft" is from 1888. The verb sense of "to cheat, defraud" is from 1920. On the take "amenable to bribery" is from 1930.